[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 49289] FORMATTING: Automatic date recognition and conversion partially broken, input result is text

Fri May 4 15:34:13 PDT 2012

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49289

Eike Rathke <erack at redhat.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |NOTABUG

--- Comment #6 from Eike Rathke <erack at redhat.com> 2012-05-04 15:34:13 PDT ---
@Rainer: number formatter / scanner bugs are usually my area.

However, the changes you noticed are desired behavior, the "accept almost
everything as date in every locale" behavior is gone as it drove people nuts.
Specifically the "any digit followed by a dot and maybe another digit" was
insane as people tried to enter lists such as
1.
2.
and ended up with dates instead, we had many complaints about that.

Also, in a German locale the '.' dot is now required as date separator, '/'
does not work anymore and '-' only if the input denotes an ISO 8601 date.
Incomplete dates are only accepted as D.M. (note trailing dot, so 15.5 is still
not a date).

See also
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6#Localization
"Implemented locale dependent date acceptance patterns"

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